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inal eoltidn Chicago examiner n._.p_uoÂ«ic price one cent tec t 1 b vol xv no 96 a m thursday Chicago april 12 1917 thursday draft to be left to wilson more food national appeal president plans to prevent famine herbert c hoover former chair man of belgium relief com mission is made food con troller of u s takes office washington april 11.â€”her bert g hoover belgium's good samaritan has cabled his consent to become america's food controller he accepted the chairmanship of the new food board of the united states offered him by the national defense council and will relinquish chairmanship of the american com mission for relief m belgium and return to the united'states for weeks mr hoover has been en gaged m a searching study of the food situation m england france and 1 italy enjoying official data and assistance which he will place m the service of his own country corps of assistants await his arrival a tentative personnel of assistants will await his approval when he ar rives president wilson started the fight on high prices and america's 7,000 000 annual food waste to-day among suggestions made to repre sentative lever chairman of the house committee on agriculture were punishment of speculators central control of distribution distribution of free seed cultivation of all waste ground mobilization of farm labor closing of breweries and distil leries to divert raw grain to food nse a congressional measure to enable food control is probable army plan of baker in peail in house speaker clark and majority lead er kitchin tell president con-fl scription bill has small hopfl of passage m either brancfl by sam w small je m washington april 1 m president as commande^h chief of the army is to i^b given the power of conscription by^m executive order according to the leg islative program of senate leaders i the president to-day unexpectedly visited the capitol and conferred for 1 an hour with speaker champ clark i and claude kitchin majority leader a of the house legislation advocated by the war i department was discussed mr wilson was assured congress j would furnish funds asked for m president is informed conscription is opposed Â£| but he was told opposition to se i lective conscription in both branches of congress endangered that plan for m raising the first 500,000 men for th ' j national army it is traditional that president wil-^^b son's visits to committee rooms pro-^^h sage the adoption by congress of hia 1 administrative measures , he frankly appealed to-day for the 1 enactment of the war department conscription plan but gained no guarantee of favorable action 9k in fact the president was told a mt compromise was all that the admin fl istration could hope for the new army bill â€” to raise and fl equip a great army and provide for a h reorganization of the general staff â€” will be put into form by the mill i tary affairs committee to-morrow lt f i will not follow the lines laid down 1 by secretary of war baker and gen i eral scott either in conscription op reorganization of the staff 1 a definite program has been shaped by senate leaders and the army bill i when it passes the house will be re m drawn in the senate to meet the ap-bj proval of that body details of proposed draft law framed the provisions of the bill dealing with conscription as outlined to-day ] may be 1 that the power of conserljiik â€”\\ provided in the constit â€¢â€¢ mm be vested in the president h o that such power be exerc executive order only : ;: call for volunteers has .' i i provide within u reasonai jm the requisite number of rec â– â€¢.. fl fill the levy h 3 that the power of conscription 1 â€¢ mm when exercised shall apply mfl measure to different states or corn-v munities only so far as to fill their quota in accordance with popula 1 tion which they have failed to raise through the call for veluo^^h teers m the conscription clause if the ate has its way will be directh against slackers either as inl viduals or comjqjujiities the drb vill be made after a chance has ffl been given to uphold the " tr:\diti^b of the nation and especially beffl american troops are in actual confl^b with the foe a of senators includ hoover appeals for food conservation london april 11 â€” herbert c hoover who to-day accepted the post of director of america's frod conser vation to-night issued the following statement i will at present continue as chairman of the belgian relief com mission but will return to the unit ed states shortly the dutch have taken over con trol of relief inside belgium and northern france and opened rela tions with the german government ; , Â£ . u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” partly j cloudy thursduy and friday cooler j ] thursday moderate to fresh north to northeast wind temperature j for twenty-four hours endinc at 2 a m : hiffhent ttl lowest 4zy average 53 normal tempevature for the day 44 deficiency of temperature since january 1 10 decrees precipitation for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m 0.01 inch deficiency of precipitation since january 1 2.4 ii inchep relative humidity 7 a ni 56 2 p m at 7 n m 7fi * barometric pressure reduced to sea level : 7 a ni 2&a2 7 p m 29.89 a sunrise to-day 5:14 sunset g-.t tmlx complete s^emment report on page 13 _________! _-_._â– _â– balfour coming to urge warpact former premier viviani of france to accompany british minister seek u s promise not to make separate peace washington april lr.^two great missions one headed by arthur j balfour british for eign minister and the other by rene viviani former premier of france are coming to the united states state department officials to-day expressed the belief that the entire part america will play m the war will be outlined within the next month after the arrival of the two commissions italy and russia also probably will send delegates mr balfour will be accompanied by admiral dechair of the british navy general bridges of the army and the governor of the bank of england they will be attended by a numerous retinue want pledge against waking separate peace the visit of mr balfour is hailed as a momentous event england it is pointed out could not have se lected a man of greater knowledge of war conditions the first thing mr balfour will propose it was expected to-day would be that the government enter into the agreement of the entente hies not to negotiate a separate peace president wilson's views on this subject have not been expressed the question of separate peace would be only one of a multitude that would necessitate the coming to this country of extraordinary political missions from england and france it was intimated other imperative questions involve finance international relations such as the greek problem mexico and especially aid for russia pooling of war resources so the allies may exert he maximum force and trade will leave technical to war chiefs it was believed that balfour will ' leave to the military and naval war chiefs discussion and collaboration with the united states upon the tech nical matters connected with the prosecution of the war he will con fine himself it is thought to the broader political aspects and m par ticular to an effort to persuade this country to stand with the allies un til german militarism is completely destroyed the question of an american dele gation to take up at london and paris other details m connection with ioint warfare against germany is being discussed in some circles it was suggested that colonel e m house of new tork and texas president wilson's adviser would head such a commission secretary mcadoo is also mentioned for the post plan to establish republic m greece Â« there was an idea however that tor the time being the main con ference should be held m washing ton one of tli first results of the en ranee of united states into tha war h ndicated to-day will be ned , n by the entente m gre ed it is belieyied that america put in u=boat zone capital hears washington april 11â€”re ports that germany had de clared a submarine war zone off the atlantic coast to include the ports of new york boston and norfolk caused interest here the rumor circulated rapidly through the corridors of the state war and navy building and there was a demand for of ficial confirmation no government department had any intimation of any such action by germany peace offer to russ reported berlin would grant dardanelles outlet kaiser threatens den mark report washington april 11 â€” official advices confirm the report that the berlin government has proposed to petrograd a separate peace on the basis that russia shall be given a free hand m persia and shall enjoy the same privileges m the use of the dardanelles as germany and turkey this german proposal is intended to assure russia of a warm water outlet both on the mediterranean and the persian gulf the situation between denmark and germany other dispatches stated was regarded by the berlin govern ment as growing more serious since the entrance of the united states into the war negotiations between the allies and denmark have been in progress for some time it is stated concessions reported berlin is reported to have offered concessions to denmark to remain neutral among them being a restora tion to the monarchy of a part of schleswig-holstein finding these of fers of no avail germany then re sorted to threats citing belgium as an example the fact that denmark has de clined to receive a naval attache from the united states within the last twenty-four hours lends color to the report that german threats are making an impression at copenhagen russ factions near break amsterdam april 11 â€” the cleav age between the radicals and con servatives m the new russian regime is widening ominously private fron tier dispatches indicate to entente quarters here yester day's proclamation by the provisional government through premier prince lvoff came as a distinct shock the virtual abandonment of russia's cen tury-old dream for possession of con stantinople and the straits and the pacifist note which ran between the lines of the document gave rise to the belief that the supporters of war to the finish have yielded consider ably to the radicals and socialists close observers of russian devel opments saw the policy of the so cialist minister of justice m keren ski m the ascendancy and that of professor milyukoff the allies strong man m the present regime m the decline it was kerenski who first urged the neutralization of the dardanelles a few days after over throw of the reactionary regime great significance also is attached to the news that the labor deputies are to send delegates to stockholm to negotiate with german emissaries grandmother of russ revolt arrives home london april 11 â€” reuter's corre spondent at petrograd reports that mnie catherine bretshliovskaya frrandmotaer of the russian re volt arriveajhere to-day enormous roÂ«ds wfflÃŸned her u s reports u-boats in the pacific captains of american ships told to search for hostile craft and report presence to navy four men arrested as spy sus pects m los angeles and dyna miting plans are uncovered san diego cal april 11 â€” it was reported to-day that a second munitions carrying vessel is en route from a pacific coast port to mexico two united states destroyers after returning to a pacific coast port to unload the munitions cap tured from the first smuggler re plenished their bunkers and put to sea again at top speed it is reported that an american secret service agent was killed aboard the captured schooner san francisco april 11 â€” the twelfth naval district to-day warned shipping companies that informa tion has been received that german submarines are operating m the pa cific the warning said information has this day been re ceived that german submarines are operating m the pacific please notify all ships under your control and ask that they spread the warn ing broadcast warned to be on guard instructions from the navy de partment on which the warning was based said get in touch at the earliest possi ble moment with captains and mas ters of all merchant vessels oper ating m your district especially off the coast and at sea and urge upon them the necessity of keeping a very bright lookout for german submarines and of reporting same immediately by radio to the near est radio station urge upon them the necessity of giving as much detailed informa tion of locality where submarines are seen and any other data that will be of value to the naval forces m searching for these vessels u-boat seen in gulf nogales ariz april 11.â€”warn ings sent out to-day from san fran cisco that german submarines were operating m the pacific renewed in terest m the story of a man who claimed he saw a german submarine last saturday near guaymas sonora m the gulf of california stung mccormick wires pacifist here by international news service washington april 11 â€” official washington is smiling broadly at the telegraphic correspondence be tween representative medill mc cormick of Illinois and a Chicago woman pacifist we elected president wilson to keep us out of war she wired mccormick answered with a one word message stung archie roosevelt hastens wedding ! springfield mass april 11 [ permission to wed miss grace s lock wood of boston without waiting the customary five days was granted archie roosevelt by judge wallace r hoady to-day mr roosevelt is rushing his marriage plans as he may be e_.l_fd to the officers reserve at ___ brazil hands passports to berlin envoy republic supplies steamer to carry minister to germany and recalls its own legation ' i sinking of parana found to be without warning m official government statement rio janeiro april 11 a special messenger went this morning to pe tropolis the home of the german colony to present to the german minister herr pauli a note from the brazilian government and to hand him his passports he was also instructed to inform the minister that brazil had placed at his disposition the steamer rio janeiro which would transport him the members of the legation and the consuls to germany silvinino gurged do amaral m charge of the brazilian legation at berlin has been ordered to return from his post switzerland will take ca of the brazilian interests in germany sunk without warning an official statement to-night says the inquiry and the conclusions cabled by the legation at paris on the subject of torpedoing of the steamer parana established that the parana was proceeding under re duced speed and was illuminated outside and inside including the shield with the name brazil the steamer received no warn ing to stop according to the unani mous deposition of the crew she was torpedoed and was shelled five times and the submarine made no attempt to save life in the presence of such aggra vating circumstances and m ac cord with the note of february 9 and the telegram of february 13 sent by the brazilian government to the legation at berlin the bra zilian government severs relations with germany ministers for war it is expressed m diplomatic circles here that other south american na tions will soon follow the example of brazil the chilean minister is continuing his conference with dr dauro muller brazilian foreign min ister the brazilian army and reserves are mobilizing argentina backs u s washington april 11 the ar gentine embassy to-day handed secre tary of state lansing the following note from its government the government of argentina m view of the causes that have prompted the united states of america to declare war against the government of the german em pire recognizes the justice of that declaration founded as it is upon violation of the principles of neu trality established by the rules of international law which have beer considered definite conquests of civilization harold mccormicks home if war lasts 11 war continues mr and mrs har old f mccormick who have been at luzerne for three years will return to Chicago the old mccormick home m lake shore drive is being remod eled for them the only son harold fowler mccormick jr has returned home from french ambulance service rhode island senate votes for suffrage providence r 1 april 11 â€” the state senate to-day passed 32 to 3 an act giving women of rhode island the right to vote for presidential elec tors â€¢_ raider holds ships in south american ports buenos aires april 11 a strange vessel identified by neutral ships as a raider was sighted to-day off the atlantic coast between montevideo uru guay and rio grande m the ex treme southern part of brazil the vessel was seen by the french steamship garonne which had just left port the garonne retreated to report rumors of the raider had caused the detention m port of many steamships due to leave buenos aires and montevideo among them were five american vessels a second raider has been reported 1,000 ships job for goethals wilson asks canal builder to rush construction of wooden vessels washington april 11 major general george goethals was re quested by president wilson to-day to take charge of the building of 1,000 wooden ships for foreign com merce increase of tonnage is regarded as imperative to defeat the german sub marine campaign and keep up the flow of supplies to the allies the entire resources of available shipbuilding yards are to be used to construct the wooden ships gets broad powers if general goethals will undertake the work he will be placed m gen eral charge with unlimited authority to organize the building facilities recently the general accepted the position of state engineer of new jersey but it is understood his con tract allows him to give up the work if called upon for public duties the shipping board has 50,000,000 at its disposal for the construction and purchase of vessels may ise lake vessels at a meeting of railroad executives here to-day the question was taken up of making arrangements so that ships now on the great lakes and m the coastwise trade can be utilized for ocean-going commerce under such a plan it is estimated that the present trans-atlantic ton nage of the united states can be dou bled and possibly trebled in 1916 the united states had 500 000 tons of shipping m the trans-at lantic trade schwab puts plant at disposal of u s new york april 11 charles m schwab declared m an address to night that the bethlehem steel plant would be devoted to the defense of this country at the call of the gov ernment schwab said the plant was turning out one 10,000-ton ship a week steadily creating an american merchant marine h chandler egan and mrs scudder married h chandler egan former amateur golf champion was married to mrs j arnold scudder formerly miss ' alice barrett of Chicago at san francisco mr egan was divorced last july and his bride of to-day ob tained a decree last september ryerson building chaser to enlist milwaukee april 11 donald ' ryerson vice president of joseph | ryerson sons & co Chicago is ! supervising construction ol a fifty : foot submarine chaser by a local boat building firm the craft will be ! turned over by ryerson to the ernment the owner will enlist f c -_. lloyds bets 10 to 1 on peace within 90 days new york april 11 a re port reached the head of a prominent banking house m wall street to-day that lloyds of lon don was offering 10 to 1 that peace would be accomplished within ninety days u.s to control all railroads 50 executives agree to operation of lines as unit dur ing war by john temple graves washington april 11 all the railroads of the united states under one war management and that man agement tho government of the uni ted states government operation m a night without friction and by agreement m all the essentials due to national necessity â€” this to-night is an accomplished fact a central executive committee was appointed to control this continental system its members are fairfax harrison president of the southern railway chairman samuel rea president of the pennsylvania railroad howard elliott president of the new york new haven & hartford railroad julius krcttschnitt chairman of the executive committee of the board of the southern pacific rail road hale holdex president of the chi cago burlington & quincy rail road daniel willard president of the baltimore & ohio railroad will sit with the central executive committee as a member ex officio at a meeting of railroafl presidents to-day called by mr willard as chair man of the advisory commission of the council of national defense a committee on resolutions was ap pointed resolution is adopted this committee composed of mr elliott b f bush receiver of the missouri pacific railroad jacob m dickinson mr harrison and judge r s lovett offered the following resolution which was adopted resolved that the railroads of the united states acting through their chief executive officers do hereby pledge themselves with the government of the united states with the governments of the several states and with one an other that during the present war they will co-ordinate their opera tions m a co/itinental railway sys tem merging during such period all their merely individual and competitive activity m the effort to produce a maximum of transporta tion efficiency to this end they hereby agree to create an organization which shall have general authority to formulate m detail and from time to time a policy of all or any of the railways the newly created central execu tive committee parallels m effect the english board of control the only difference is that the english body j is governmental while the american j board of railroad control is civilian distillers to quit whisky for u.s work Chicago offices of the james e pep per distilling company la.stjnight an nounced the great distillind plant at lexington ky would practice only denatured alcohol needed bymhe gov ernment for manufacturingjÃŸjgh ex plosives scores of other dsflk'leries including those at peoria jiflk^ian inounced similar action _â– _â– continued on 2d page sth column

inal eoltidn Chicago examiner n._.p_uoÂ«ic price one cent tec t 1 b vol xv no 96 a m thursday Chicago april 12 1917 thursday draft to be left to wilson more food national appeal president plans to prevent famine herbert c hoover former chair man of belgium relief com mission is made food con troller of u s takes office washington april 11.â€”her bert g hoover belgium's good samaritan has cabled his consent to become america's food controller he accepted the chairmanship of the new food board of the united states offered him by the national defense council and will relinquish chairmanship of the american com mission for relief m belgium and return to the united'states for weeks mr hoover has been en gaged m a searching study of the food situation m england france and 1 italy enjoying official data and assistance which he will place m the service of his own country corps of assistants await his arrival a tentative personnel of assistants will await his approval when he ar rives president wilson started the fight on high prices and america's 7,000 000 annual food waste to-day among suggestions made to repre sentative lever chairman of the house committee on agriculture were punishment of speculators central control of distribution distribution of free seed cultivation of all waste ground mobilization of farm labor closing of breweries and distil leries to divert raw grain to food nse a congressional measure to enable food control is probable army plan of baker in peail in house speaker clark and majority lead er kitchin tell president con-fl scription bill has small hopfl of passage m either brancfl by sam w small je m washington april 1 m president as commande^h chief of the army is to i^b given the power of conscription by^m executive order according to the leg islative program of senate leaders i the president to-day unexpectedly visited the capitol and conferred for 1 an hour with speaker champ clark i and claude kitchin majority leader a of the house legislation advocated by the war i department was discussed mr wilson was assured congress j would furnish funds asked for m president is informed conscription is opposed Â£| but he was told opposition to se i lective conscription in both branches of congress endangered that plan for m raising the first 500,000 men for th ' j national army it is traditional that president wil-^^b son's visits to committee rooms pro-^^h sage the adoption by congress of hia 1 administrative measures , he frankly appealed to-day for the 1 enactment of the war department conscription plan but gained no guarantee of favorable action 9k in fact the president was told a mt compromise was all that the admin fl istration could hope for the new army bill â€” to raise and fl equip a great army and provide for a h reorganization of the general staff â€” will be put into form by the mill i tary affairs committee to-morrow lt f i will not follow the lines laid down 1 by secretary of war baker and gen i eral scott either in conscription op reorganization of the staff 1 a definite program has been shaped by senate leaders and the army bill i when it passes the house will be re m drawn in the senate to meet the ap-bj proval of that body details of proposed draft law framed the provisions of the bill dealing with conscription as outlined to-day ] may be 1 that the power of conserljiik â€”\\ provided in the constit â€¢â€¢ mm be vested in the president h o that such power be exerc executive order only : ;: call for volunteers has .' i i provide within u reasonai jm the requisite number of rec â– â€¢.. fl fill the levy h 3 that the power of conscription 1 â€¢ mm when exercised shall apply mfl measure to different states or corn-v munities only so far as to fill their quota in accordance with popula 1 tion which they have failed to raise through the call for veluo^^h teers m the conscription clause if the ate has its way will be directh against slackers either as inl viduals or comjqjujiities the drb vill be made after a chance has ffl been given to uphold the " tr:\diti^b of the nation and especially beffl american troops are in actual confl^b with the foe a of senators includ hoover appeals for food conservation london april 11 â€” herbert c hoover who to-day accepted the post of director of america's frod conser vation to-night issued the following statement i will at present continue as chairman of the belgian relief com mission but will return to the unit ed states shortly the dutch have taken over con trol of relief inside belgium and northern france and opened rela tions with the german government ; , Â£ . u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” partly j cloudy thursduy and friday cooler j ] thursday moderate to fresh north to northeast wind temperature j for twenty-four hours endinc at 2 a m : hiffhent ttl lowest 4zy average 53 normal tempevature for the day 44 deficiency of temperature since january 1 10 decrees precipitation for twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m 0.01 inch deficiency of precipitation since january 1 2.4 ii inchep relative humidity 7 a ni 56 2 p m at 7 n m 7fi * barometric pressure reduced to sea level : 7 a ni 2&a2 7 p m 29.89 a sunrise to-day 5:14 sunset g-.t tmlx complete s^emment report on page 13 _________! _-_._â– _â– balfour coming to urge warpact former premier viviani of france to accompany british minister seek u s promise not to make separate peace washington april lr.^two great missions one headed by arthur j balfour british for eign minister and the other by rene viviani former premier of france are coming to the united states state department officials to-day expressed the belief that the entire part america will play m the war will be outlined within the next month after the arrival of the two commissions italy and russia also probably will send delegates mr balfour will be accompanied by admiral dechair of the british navy general bridges of the army and the governor of the bank of england they will be attended by a numerous retinue want pledge against waking separate peace the visit of mr balfour is hailed as a momentous event england it is pointed out could not have se lected a man of greater knowledge of war conditions the first thing mr balfour will propose it was expected to-day would be that the government enter into the agreement of the entente hies not to negotiate a separate peace president wilson's views on this subject have not been expressed the question of separate peace would be only one of a multitude that would necessitate the coming to this country of extraordinary political missions from england and france it was intimated other imperative questions involve finance international relations such as the greek problem mexico and especially aid for russia pooling of war resources so the allies may exert he maximum force and trade will leave technical to war chiefs it was believed that balfour will ' leave to the military and naval war chiefs discussion and collaboration with the united states upon the tech nical matters connected with the prosecution of the war he will con fine himself it is thought to the broader political aspects and m par ticular to an effort to persuade this country to stand with the allies un til german militarism is completely destroyed the question of an american dele gation to take up at london and paris other details m connection with ioint warfare against germany is being discussed in some circles it was suggested that colonel e m house of new tork and texas president wilson's adviser would head such a commission secretary mcadoo is also mentioned for the post plan to establish republic m greece Â« there was an idea however that tor the time being the main con ference should be held m washing ton one of tli first results of the en ranee of united states into tha war h ndicated to-day will be ned , n by the entente m gre ed it is belieyied that america put in u=boat zone capital hears washington april 11â€”re ports that germany had de clared a submarine war zone off the atlantic coast to include the ports of new york boston and norfolk caused interest here the rumor circulated rapidly through the corridors of the state war and navy building and there was a demand for of ficial confirmation no government department had any intimation of any such action by germany peace offer to russ reported berlin would grant dardanelles outlet kaiser threatens den mark report washington april 11 â€” official advices confirm the report that the berlin government has proposed to petrograd a separate peace on the basis that russia shall be given a free hand m persia and shall enjoy the same privileges m the use of the dardanelles as germany and turkey this german proposal is intended to assure russia of a warm water outlet both on the mediterranean and the persian gulf the situation between denmark and germany other dispatches stated was regarded by the berlin govern ment as growing more serious since the entrance of the united states into the war negotiations between the allies and denmark have been in progress for some time it is stated concessions reported berlin is reported to have offered concessions to denmark to remain neutral among them being a restora tion to the monarchy of a part of schleswig-holstein finding these of fers of no avail germany then re sorted to threats citing belgium as an example the fact that denmark has de clined to receive a naval attache from the united states within the last twenty-four hours lends color to the report that german threats are making an impression at copenhagen russ factions near break amsterdam april 11 â€” the cleav age between the radicals and con servatives m the new russian regime is widening ominously private fron tier dispatches indicate to entente quarters here yester day's proclamation by the provisional government through premier prince lvoff came as a distinct shock the virtual abandonment of russia's cen tury-old dream for possession of con stantinople and the straits and the pacifist note which ran between the lines of the document gave rise to the belief that the supporters of war to the finish have yielded consider ably to the radicals and socialists close observers of russian devel opments saw the policy of the so cialist minister of justice m keren ski m the ascendancy and that of professor milyukoff the allies strong man m the present regime m the decline it was kerenski who first urged the neutralization of the dardanelles a few days after over throw of the reactionary regime great significance also is attached to the news that the labor deputies are to send delegates to stockholm to negotiate with german emissaries grandmother of russ revolt arrives home london april 11 â€” reuter's corre spondent at petrograd reports that mnie catherine bretshliovskaya frrandmotaer of the russian re volt arriveajhere to-day enormous roÂ«ds wfflÃŸned her u s reports u-boats in the pacific captains of american ships told to search for hostile craft and report presence to navy four men arrested as spy sus pects m los angeles and dyna miting plans are uncovered san diego cal april 11 â€” it was reported to-day that a second munitions carrying vessel is en route from a pacific coast port to mexico two united states destroyers after returning to a pacific coast port to unload the munitions cap tured from the first smuggler re plenished their bunkers and put to sea again at top speed it is reported that an american secret service agent was killed aboard the captured schooner san francisco april 11 â€” the twelfth naval district to-day warned shipping companies that informa tion has been received that german submarines are operating m the pa cific the warning said information has this day been re ceived that german submarines are operating m the pacific please notify all ships under your control and ask that they spread the warn ing broadcast warned to be on guard instructions from the navy de partment on which the warning was based said get in touch at the earliest possi ble moment with captains and mas ters of all merchant vessels oper ating m your district especially off the coast and at sea and urge upon them the necessity of keeping a very bright lookout for german submarines and of reporting same immediately by radio to the near est radio station urge upon them the necessity of giving as much detailed informa tion of locality where submarines are seen and any other data that will be of value to the naval forces m searching for these vessels u-boat seen in gulf nogales ariz april 11.â€”warn ings sent out to-day from san fran cisco that german submarines were operating m the pacific renewed in terest m the story of a man who claimed he saw a german submarine last saturday near guaymas sonora m the gulf of california stung mccormick wires pacifist here by international news service washington april 11 â€” official washington is smiling broadly at the telegraphic correspondence be tween representative medill mc cormick of Illinois and a Chicago woman pacifist we elected president wilson to keep us out of war she wired mccormick answered with a one word message stung archie roosevelt hastens wedding ! springfield mass april 11 [ permission to wed miss grace s lock wood of boston without waiting the customary five days was granted archie roosevelt by judge wallace r hoady to-day mr roosevelt is rushing his marriage plans as he may be e_.l_fd to the officers reserve at ___ brazil hands passports to berlin envoy republic supplies steamer to carry minister to germany and recalls its own legation ' i sinking of parana found to be without warning m official government statement rio janeiro april 11 a special messenger went this morning to pe tropolis the home of the german colony to present to the german minister herr pauli a note from the brazilian government and to hand him his passports he was also instructed to inform the minister that brazil had placed at his disposition the steamer rio janeiro which would transport him the members of the legation and the consuls to germany silvinino gurged do amaral m charge of the brazilian legation at berlin has been ordered to return from his post switzerland will take ca of the brazilian interests in germany sunk without warning an official statement to-night says the inquiry and the conclusions cabled by the legation at paris on the subject of torpedoing of the steamer parana established that the parana was proceeding under re duced speed and was illuminated outside and inside including the shield with the name brazil the steamer received no warn ing to stop according to the unani mous deposition of the crew she was torpedoed and was shelled five times and the submarine made no attempt to save life in the presence of such aggra vating circumstances and m ac cord with the note of february 9 and the telegram of february 13 sent by the brazilian government to the legation at berlin the bra zilian government severs relations with germany ministers for war it is expressed m diplomatic circles here that other south american na tions will soon follow the example of brazil the chilean minister is continuing his conference with dr dauro muller brazilian foreign min ister the brazilian army and reserves are mobilizing argentina backs u s washington april 11 the ar gentine embassy to-day handed secre tary of state lansing the following note from its government the government of argentina m view of the causes that have prompted the united states of america to declare war against the government of the german em pire recognizes the justice of that declaration founded as it is upon violation of the principles of neu trality established by the rules of international law which have beer considered definite conquests of civilization harold mccormicks home if war lasts 11 war continues mr and mrs har old f mccormick who have been at luzerne for three years will return to Chicago the old mccormick home m lake shore drive is being remod eled for them the only son harold fowler mccormick jr has returned home from french ambulance service rhode island senate votes for suffrage providence r 1 april 11 â€” the state senate to-day passed 32 to 3 an act giving women of rhode island the right to vote for presidential elec tors â€¢_ raider holds ships in south american ports buenos aires april 11 a strange vessel identified by neutral ships as a raider was sighted to-day off the atlantic coast between montevideo uru guay and rio grande m the ex treme southern part of brazil the vessel was seen by the french steamship garonne which had just left port the garonne retreated to report rumors of the raider had caused the detention m port of many steamships due to leave buenos aires and montevideo among them were five american vessels a second raider has been reported 1,000 ships job for goethals wilson asks canal builder to rush construction of wooden vessels washington april 11 major general george goethals was re quested by president wilson to-day to take charge of the building of 1,000 wooden ships for foreign com merce increase of tonnage is regarded as imperative to defeat the german sub marine campaign and keep up the flow of supplies to the allies the entire resources of available shipbuilding yards are to be used to construct the wooden ships gets broad powers if general goethals will undertake the work he will be placed m gen eral charge with unlimited authority to organize the building facilities recently the general accepted the position of state engineer of new jersey but it is understood his con tract allows him to give up the work if called upon for public duties the shipping board has 50,000,000 at its disposal for the construction and purchase of vessels may ise lake vessels at a meeting of railroad executives here to-day the question was taken up of making arrangements so that ships now on the great lakes and m the coastwise trade can be utilized for ocean-going commerce under such a plan it is estimated that the present trans-atlantic ton nage of the united states can be dou bled and possibly trebled in 1916 the united states had 500 000 tons of shipping m the trans-at lantic trade schwab puts plant at disposal of u s new york april 11 charles m schwab declared m an address to night that the bethlehem steel plant would be devoted to the defense of this country at the call of the gov ernment schwab said the plant was turning out one 10,000-ton ship a week steadily creating an american merchant marine h chandler egan and mrs scudder married h chandler egan former amateur golf champion was married to mrs j arnold scudder formerly miss ' alice barrett of Chicago at san francisco mr egan was divorced last july and his bride of to-day ob tained a decree last september ryerson building chaser to enlist milwaukee april 11 donald ' ryerson vice president of joseph | ryerson sons & co Chicago is ! supervising construction ol a fifty : foot submarine chaser by a local boat building firm the craft will be ! turned over by ryerson to the ernment the owner will enlist f c -_. lloyds bets 10 to 1 on peace within 90 days new york april 11 a re port reached the head of a prominent banking house m wall street to-day that lloyds of lon don was offering 10 to 1 that peace would be accomplished within ninety days u.s to control all railroads 50 executives agree to operation of lines as unit dur ing war by john temple graves washington april 11 all the railroads of the united states under one war management and that man agement tho government of the uni ted states government operation m a night without friction and by agreement m all the essentials due to national necessity â€” this to-night is an accomplished fact a central executive committee was appointed to control this continental system its members are fairfax harrison president of the southern railway chairman samuel rea president of the pennsylvania railroad howard elliott president of the new york new haven & hartford railroad julius krcttschnitt chairman of the executive committee of the board of the southern pacific rail road hale holdex president of the chi cago burlington & quincy rail road daniel willard president of the baltimore & ohio railroad will sit with the central executive committee as a member ex officio at a meeting of railroafl presidents to-day called by mr willard as chair man of the advisory commission of the council of national defense a committee on resolutions was ap pointed resolution is adopted this committee composed of mr elliott b f bush receiver of the missouri pacific railroad jacob m dickinson mr harrison and judge r s lovett offered the following resolution which was adopted resolved that the railroads of the united states acting through their chief executive officers do hereby pledge themselves with the government of the united states with the governments of the several states and with one an other that during the present war they will co-ordinate their opera tions m a co/itinental railway sys tem merging during such period all their merely individual and competitive activity m the effort to produce a maximum of transporta tion efficiency to this end they hereby agree to create an organization which shall have general authority to formulate m detail and from time to time a policy of all or any of the railways the newly created central execu tive committee parallels m effect the english board of control the only difference is that the english body j is governmental while the american j board of railroad control is civilian distillers to quit whisky for u.s work Chicago offices of the james e pep per distilling company la.stjnight an nounced the great distillind plant at lexington ky would practice only denatured alcohol needed bymhe gov ernment for manufacturingjÃŸjgh ex plosives scores of other dsflk'leries including those at peoria jiflk^ian inounced similar action _â– _â– continued on 2d page sth column